The Present Age of Babel
By Jonathan Yudelman This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. Chantal Delsol’s thought-provoking thesis that we are at the...
Gazing Into the Abyss with Charles Taylor
Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault by Charles Taylor, trans. by Yanette Shalter. Baylor University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 92 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jeffrey Wald I love short books. I love long books too; completing War and Peace a few years back...
Quasi-Religious Parenting
Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America by Christian Smith, Bridget Ritz, and Michael Rotolo. Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 312 pages, $35. Reviewed by Melissa Langsam Braunstein Nearly a decade ago, long before I was...
Everyone Worships
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton. PublicAffairs, 2020. Hardcover, 279 pages, $28. Reviewed by Scott D. Moringiello Bookman readers are likely to know Tara Isabella Burton from her op-ed in the New York Times entitled...
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